Spending authority is relevant context but does not by itself establish primarily managerial or executive duties. Separate actual business resources from filing and advisory expenses.
Explain how resources support the position
A budget should show the real operation, including who performs routine work. Avoid increasing a forecast merely to suggest seniority without matching operating evidence.
Use the current USCIS fee schedule for the I-129 base fee and any associated charges, add premium processing only if the timeline genuinely needs it, and budget professional fees and the cost of preparing corporate evidence separately. Divide the forecast into petition preparation, official charges verified from current instructions, dependent arrangements, relocation, and ordinary business travel. On the venture side sit the real operating costs, and for a new office they are unavoidable rather than optional: premises that actually exist, payroll for the staff who make the role managerial, equipment and insurance. The costs that are harder to predict are the professional ones: reconstructing the corporate chain, preparing staffing evidence, and answering a request for evidence about managerial capacity if the first submission was thin. Business costs here include incorporation or registration charges, professional fees for corporate and tax advice, premises and banking set-up, accounting in a second jurisdiction, and the funding the plan says the operation needs.